Automobile-extricating device.



AUTOMOBILE EXTRICATEING DEVICE. APP'ucAUoN mio MAY24, may

Patented Apr. 18, 1916.

ALEXANDER GAGNON, F BIDDEFORD, MAINE.

AUTOMOBILE-EXTRICATING DEVICE.

Application filed May 24, 1915.

To all whom it may concern y' Be it known that I, ALEXANDER GAGNON,arcitlzen -of the United States, residing at Biddeford, in the county ofYork and State of Maine, have invented new and useful Im- 4provide asimple device adapted to be readily carried in an automobile and stowedaway under lthe seat or placed in the tool boX, said device beingadapted to venable the operator of a car to extricate the machine froma. soft or miry place under the power of the machine itself and withoutthe asisitance of another machine or additional e p. v With the aboveand other objects in view, the invention consists in the novelconstruction, combination and arrangement of parts, as herein described,illustrated and claimed.

1n the ac'ompanying drawings z-Figure 1 is a side elevation showing onemethod of using the extricating device. Fig. 2 is a similar view showinganother method of using the extricating device. Fig. 3 is a plan view onan enlarged scale of the device per se. Fig. 4 is a Adetail view of thesectional stake.

The device of this invention embodies two flexible tension members 1extending in the same general direction, each of said members consistingeither of an ordinary rope or cable and both of the members beingbrought together at one end to form an eye 2 which constitutes thestationary end of-the device, said eye -2 being adapted to be placedover a stake indicated generally at A and comprising one .or moresections. Where the stake consists of one or more sections, the

' -sections thereof may be threaded or otherwise coupled together asindicated in Fig. 4. This stake is tapered `and pointed so as tofacilitate driving the 4same into solid ground at a sufficiently remotepoint from the place where the machine is mired to enable said machineto bepropelled under its own power upon the more solid ground.

Une of the tension members 1 has attached i Y to one end thereof a hook3 While the other member .1 is provided with an eye 41 to receve saidhook. This enables the end of the t5 devce provided with said hook to beengaged Specification of Letters Patent.

with one of the driving wheels of the ma- Serial No. 30,142.

chine by extending the device around one of the spokes' immediatelyadjacent to the wheel rim.

A plurality of smaller flexible strands 5 extending generally in thelength of the whole device Aconnect the tension members l, being reevedback and forth through said tension members, there being preferably twoof such iiexible strands so reeved through the tension members as toform series of obliquely extending and crossing tire gripping ymemberswhich embrace the tread portion of the tire when linear strain is placedon the wholedevice.

6 designates a spreader which is removably inserted between the tensionmembers 1 adjacent to the eye 2 labove referred to, said spreadingmember serving to hold the adjacent ends of the tension members at asufficient distance apart to accommodate the tire and rim of theautomobile.

In the use of the device hereinabove described, one end thereof isengaged with the wheel in the manner described and as illustrated, foexample, in Fig. 1 where the machine is" to be backedout of the place inwhich it is mired, the other end of the detor .desiresf to extricate the-machine by driving the'same in a forward direction,

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the device is used as illustrated in Fig. 2, one l end thereof beingfastened to one of the driving wheels of the machine and the other endbeing carried forward and secured by the anchoring stake to the ground.The device is thus applicable for extricating the machine from a miredposition by driving the machine either in a forward or back- Warddirection.

When the device is not in use it may be compactly rolled and storedaway. in any ,convenient place in the machine, the same being true withrespect to the stake A which as above stated may be of sectionalconstruction to facilitate its storage and trans portation.

An automobile extricating device, embodying a pair of flexible tensionmembers extending in the same general direction and connected togetherat one end in the form of a terminal eye, a hook enabling the oppositeends of said tension members to be' connected and disconnected, aplurality of flexible ...strands of smaller size extending throughoutthe. length of said tension lmem- 'In testinom whereof I aix mysignature ber and reeved bbak aif: forth through in presence o twowitnesses.

sai tension mem ers an orming two se- T ries of obliquely extending andcrossing tire ALEXANDER GAGNOB 5 gripping members, and a detachablespread- Witnesses:

ing member insertible between the tension' AMY M. PIER,

members adjacent to said terminal eye. JAMES W. WOOD.

